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US Authorities To Put Pinch On Site Hijackers
News The US' Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is set to announce a sweeping crackdown on the hijacking of legitimate Web pages to redirect Web surfers to porn sites. The crackdown is set to be announced next week.
[September 16, 1999, 9:39]
NASA Hacker Is No Neo
Leader McKinnon's plight is also a great excuse for the US authorities. The real story here is how US authorities allowed a hacker with rudimentary tools to crack their systems. The news this week that the 'World's biggest hacker of military networks' may...
[June 10, 2005, 14:30]
Throwing Money At Technology
News As part of California's effort in the war on terror, the US state's legislators this year proposed that trucks hauling hazardous materials be fitted with technologies that would allow authorities to seize control of hijacked vehicles -- a law that...
[October 19, 2004, 16:15]
NASA Hacker Ready For A Long Battle
News The US authorities first moved to have the so-called "NASA hacker" extradited in November 2002. His biggest concern is that if he loses on 10 May, the US authorities could ask that he be jailed while his case moves through the appeal courts.
[May 2, 2006, 12:45]
McKinnon Should Be Scared; So Should America
Leader But while McKinnon knows what will happen to him, US authorities show no equivalent insight. But we have no evidence that the authorities really took his actions seriously: where is the widespread reform, where the sackings and new blood, that...
[May 10, 2006, 16:10]
When Justice Is A One-way Street
Leader McKinnon claims to have been merely looking around, mainly for evidence of a US alien cover-up; American authorities claim he actually damaged more than 20 US sites that totalled $700,000. Soon after illegally accessing the US systems, McKinnon was...
[July 7, 2006, 13:15]
Nasa Hacker Loses Extradition Appeal
News In this case, the bargain was that if McKinnon agreed to co-operate with them, the US authorities would agree to a reduced sentence of three years (as opposed to a possible 15 to 20). According to McKinnon and his counsel, a US member of the...
[April 3, 2007, 14:16]
Nasa Hacker To Fight US Extradition On Monday
News Acting for the US authorities will be Clare Montgomery QC. Lawyers acting on behalf of the US government allegedly said that if McKinnon did not agree to co-operate with them, they would push for the highest possible penalties and that he would be...
[June 13, 2008, 12:01]
UK Councils Fail E-service Test
News On average, local authorities took two-and-a-half days to answer the emails, but there were huge variations within the sample, with Glasgow the fastest at just one hour. Andrew Gough, the manager of government services at Kana, said smaller...
[August 13, 2003, 11:10]
Major Online Credit Card Theft Exposed
News It was unclear why the thief hacked the government Web site and stored the data there, Macken said, although he said the act might have been the online equivalent of thumbing one's nose at US authorities, which have so far been stymied in their...
[March 17, 2000, 12:37]
Nasa Hacker Taken Ill As Appeal Continues
News In McKinnon's absence, his defence lawyer told the High Court that his extradition should be blocked because the US authorities had offered him a shorter sentence in return for agreeing to extradition.
[February 14, 2007, 16:06]
A Tale Of Two Cases
News As a result, European authorities have placed more emphasis on the way Microsoft's behaviour affected companies such as Sun Microsystems and RealNetworks than US regulators did in their case. The US authorities were focusing on the Web browser...
[March 24, 2004, 15:10]
US Government Renews Domain-name Contract
News It has operated the Net addressing system under an agreement with US authorities since 1998. US authorities should let the contract lapse after two years, Rodger suggested, adding that "ICANN should have earned its independence by then".
[August 17, 2006, 10:25]
Lords To Consider Nasa Hacker Appeal
News At the time, the Court of Appeal took a dim view of alleged coercion applied to McKinnon by US prosecutors, saying that it "viewed with a degree of distaste the way in which the American authorities are alleged to have approached the plea bargain...
[August 1, 2007, 12:52]
Two Men Brought In By Police In EBay Fraud Schemes
News US postal inspectors intercepted another $34,000 in checks sent to Cruz, authorities said. Federal authorities have arrested one Southern California man and indicted another in connection with two separate fraud schemes on eBay.
[December 27, 2000, 11:34]
Nasa Hacker Loses Lords Appeal Against Extradition
News Lord Brown said that, in reaching its judgement, the court was aware of the use of plea bargaining in the US on a wide scale and said that it would be reasonable for US authorities to want to use it. In a statement, McKinnon's firm of solicitors...
[July 30, 2008, 15:02]
US Lawyers 'threatened' Nasa Hacker, Court Hears
News Moreover, in a letter to McKinnon dated 9 April, 2003, Gibson said the US authorities would reserve the right to prosecute McKinnon under US military law, which carries much more stringent penalties, Pannick told the court.
[June 16, 2008, 18:08]
Internet Companies 'must Respect Free Speech'
News This would ensure that any requests for information from the authorities of a repressive regime would have to pass through the US judicial system, the group claims. More recently, according to Reporters without Borders, Yahoo had cooperated with...
[January 10, 2006, 16:25]
Yahoo's Founder Responds To China Criticism
News Yahoo executives feel "horrible" about political arrests of Internet users in China but believe it's better to operate in that market and cooperate with authorities than not be there at all, Yahoo co-founder
[March 9, 2006, 15:35]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog We have received a letter from Local Authorities Co-ordinating Body on Food and Trading Standards (LACOTS) - Environmental Focus Group, telling us That many of our Members are likely to be in breach of the EC's Packaging And Essential Requirements...
[July 31, 2001, 16:48]
